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Job description of your unconscious
According to Dr Tad James, the Unconscious Mind:
1. Preserves the body
maintains the integrity of the body
2. Runs the body
It has a blueprint:
of the body as it is now
of perfect health (of the body as it once was/could be again)
3. Generates, stores, distributes and transmits "energy"
4. Controls and maintains all perceptions,
receives, sifts and transmits these to the conscious mind
5. Stores memories:
Temporally
Atemporally
6. Organises all memories
on a time-line
as gestalts
7. Is the domain of the emotions
8. Represses memories with unresolved negative emotions
9. Presents repressed memories for "rationalisation"
to release the negative emotions
10.Keeps repressed emotions repressed for protection
11.Is child-like
It behaves like a child (up to 7 y.o.)
It responds to communication like a child
12. Does not process negatives
13. Is a highly moral being
It has the morality you were brought up with
14.Is a servant, follows orders
Keep your orders simple
15.Takes everything personally
It doesn’t know the difference between yourself and other people
It responds to your internal representation of a person (including yourself) rather than to the person
16. Is symbolic
It responds to symbols (Ad/Vd) and uses them (anchoring)
17.Takes everything literally
It doesn’t know that, depending on the context, words have different meanings (multiordinality/polysemy)
18. Works on the principle of least effort
It follows the path of least resistance (within the ranges of choices it is aware of)
19.Responds with instinct and habits
Instincts are genetic
Habits are memetic/culturally/socially acquired
20. Needs repetition for long term projects
To generate a new habit
21.Is programmed to seek out more and more
22.Does not need parts to function
© Tad James (reprinted with permission)/DCB
© 2007 Swift Changes PGPE / Personal Growth Professional Evolution / Post Graduate Professional Education